Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Time: 11:10 AM
Song: Lit Up
Artist: Buckcherry
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Buckcherry’s self-titled album from 1999.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1OBMSzh2ocRqK2gUFaMBSM?si=d96e786451844910
My co-worker, Lindsey,
came into my office and exclaimed.
“Buckcherry is going
to be in Dixon in October!”
She was excited and bought
front-row tickets when sales opened at noon for the show at the Historic Dixon
Theater.
I haven’t decided
yet if we’ll go, but it is a show that is intriguing.
When I was a
freshman in college, I loved this song and album (No, I didn’t love the
cocaine, lol). It was an album I popped in whenever I wanted a shot of energy,
which was more often as a 19-year-old than now as a 43-year-old.
Their album “15”
released in 2006 was also solid and featured their biggest hit “Crazy Bitch,” a
song while very infectious I was never that fond of.
Buckcherry is a heavy
rocking band capable of dropping a good rock ballad. I sometimes hear Aerosmith
in their sound.
I’ve always felt
they were about a decade late from being a band that was a household name like
Aerosmith or ACDC. By the time they hit the airwaves, radio was losing its
stronghold to streaming and bands beyond the most mainstream weren’t able to reach
the masses very easily.
Instead, they are a hard
rock band that hard rock fans know that will be playing Dixon, a 15,000-people
town in Northern Illinois in 2025 rather than stadiums.
On the bright side,
that’s good for folks like Lindsey and me.
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